Rodin originally intended for the figures of Adam and Eve to flank The Gates of Hell as sculptural reminders of the possibility for damnation and the potential for redemption. In Dante's Inferno, the two occupy the highest circle of heaven, having been rescued from limbo by Christ before the Resurrection.

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